Dear The Observer,
Today, when my friend told me that Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries were getting divorced after only 72 days of marriage, I laughed on the floor of my dorm room in Breen-Phillips Hall for a solid minute and a half. Then, when she told me that the wedding festivities, including the engagement ring, cost a collective $12 million, I got angry. We started crunching numbers, and the following is a list we compiled, entitled "Better Things Kim Could Have Done With $12 Million — Notre Dame Edition:"
48 million: Quarter Dogs from the Huddle
Six million: Candles at The Grotto ($2 suggested donation to light)
Six million: Huddle student meal tickets
800,000: The Shirts
315,789: Pairs of Toms (then double it because the company donates a pair for every pair purchased)
57,142: Sets of student football tickets
56: Full four-year tuitions paid to the University
(Now for the Kickers:)
24 million: People protected from Neglected Tropical Diseases for one year
1.2 million: Families who could receive clean water for 10 years through the Totter for Water campaign
48,000: Children who could have received a year of education and food at The Hopeful School in Uganda through Fields of Growth International
19: Lifetime treatments for HIV (valued at $618,900 per person)
Help a brother out, Kim.
Sincerely,
Lauren Morisseau
freshman
Breen-Phillips Hall
Dylan Parent
freshman
Breen-Phillips Hall
Oct. 31
